Whirly: good to go

We dinged 70 tonight and only died once. Mark’s wizard is trying to create a port spell to Wall of Slaughter, so we’ve been working there. We camped Kyv Pureshot tonight trying to get the last part, a Dark Enchanted Scroll. Kyv popped, and we killed him three times. No luck. Our death happened when Mark pointed out a named passing by. He was yellow to us. I pulled him. It looked like we might win, but one of our merc-tanks went down. the Mob was down to 44% when I died.

70 is the highest we’ve ever gotten in EQ. Reaching it certainly has been anticlimactic. What now? 80 I guess.

We popped into the Earthen Bad Lands tonight for about two hours. It was our first time. Everything on tracking was blue or white with a couple of reds. We are level 65.

The mobs were ho-hum. Lots of hit-points, but not challenging or dangerous. They didn’t have much loot either. It kind of felt like a wasted zone. We didn’t make it underground though. Maybe it gets interesting down there. I expect we’ll go back at least once. We are starting to get quite a few places on our return list.

We had only one problem requiring an evac. It was my fault. I was trying to take a short cut requiring us to lev across a gap. We lost control of our mercs and things got challenging and dangerous all at once.

Mark gave me a present today. He found a copy of ‘Lullaby of Morell’ in the auction house and purchased it for my Bard. As the name implies, it’s a lull song and works on mobs up to level 65. I played with it tonight as we fought. I was able to lull two mobs at a time while the group killed a third. The negative is I’m not helping to kill the target, and I’m not singing the tunes I normally use during fights. But, I take two mobs out of the fight. That certainly is a plus. I probably won’t be using it all the time, but situationally, it can be a real group saver.